Susanne Gervay’s I AM JACK with Tim McGarry, Monkey Baa Theatre, Seymour Centre
Love, love, love Courage to Care.
They embrace ‘I AM JACK’ and the evening at the Darling Quarter Lend Lease theatre with I AM JACK was a fantastic night.
Tim McGarry was brilliant as usual performing JACK.
The post author and actor talk was compered by author Moya Simons. It was emotional as Moya and I started our writing careers together.
The brain child of Andrew Havas, Courage to Care brings the message of NO to bullying, social inclusion, harmony and justice to all people irrespective of colour, race, religion.
Courage to Care engages Holocaust survivors with children, and tours to schools across NSW, Victoria and will be reaching 100′s of school in Queensland in a partnership with the Catholic schools this year.
Visit Courage to Care website – www.couragetocare.com.au – and support a peaceful world.
Love Monkey Baa Theatre
Love Monkey Baa Theatre.
Did you hear that?
Love the talented trio – Directors Eva DiCesare, Tim McGarry and Sandra Eldridge.
Love the whole team of Monkey Baa lead by the GM Penny Watts and the International Theatre Manager Vicki Middleton.
Vicki is presenting I AM JACK at the IPAC showcase in Philidelphia in January 2013.
Monkey Baa’s ‘Hitler’s Daughter’ by Jackie French will be touring the USA February -April 2013 – a moving production.
THANKYOU to the Monkey Baa Directors who adapted my I AM JACK into an outstanding play which will be having another season March 2013 at the Lend Lease Darling Quarter Theatre.
THANKYOU to the Monkey Baa Directors for their reading of the film script “I AM JACK’ which amalgamates my three JACK books – they were amazing and brought me to tears.
LOVE YOU ALL.
Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and New Year.
Room to Read endorses I AM JACK www.roomtoread.org
Showing now at the Ensemble Theatre Kirribilli -a must see play.
by Jeffrey Hatcher
Artistic Director Nicole Buffoni
Cast: Danny Adcock, Sharon Millerchip
Reviewed by Susanne Gervay www.sgervay.com
Emotionally and intellectually gripping, The Ensemble Theatre’s production of Jeffry Hatcher’s ‘A Picasso’ opens in an underground bunker in Paris October 24, 1941. The sound of Nazi jackboots set the scene for a potent, thought provoking confrontation between Pablo Picasso and Miss Fischer from the German Cultural Ministry on the power of art, war and ideas.
Pablo Picasso has been brought in for interrogation. The young female Nazi official Miss Fischer enters the colourless bunker, in her harshly cut suit and German-like precision. Pablo Picasso is flamboyant, opinionated, a huge fluid presence like his art. She must obtain an authentic Picasso for the Nazi exhibition of ‘degenerate art’.
‘From now on we are going to wage a merciless war of destruction against the last remaining element of cultural disintegration.’ Adolf Hitler, 18 July 1937
Picasso’s life and the political events of the time are brilliantly interspersed with witty, quick dialogue in the interrogation. In a roller coaster of ideas and conscience, values and humanity, ‘A Picasso’ reaches into the role of art in politics. Picasso fights for his art, claims it is not political, he is not political. The question of politics and art culminate in Miss Fischer’s challenge to Picasso that he hid in France under the protection of art, while his country Spain burned, as the Spanish Civil War tore it apart. She breaks down Picasso’s certainty, as he screams, but there is Guernica.
On 26 April 1937, the German Condor Legion, in a bloodbath of bombing destroyed the quiet village of Guernica in support of the Spanish Civil War and to test their blitzkrieg. Picasso’s Cubist masterpiece Guernica, is one of the world’s greatest anti-war paintings. It is political.
Art is ideas and the Nazis needed to destroy ideas. Miss Fischer’s role was to gain a Picasso painting, to destroy it. Picasso’s role was to fight for art’s survival. They both change, breakdown, as power moves between them.
Picasso runs 90 minutes with no intermission as ideas, clash and change, and tension escalate in this play about war and art and conscience. Powerfully performed by Danny Adcock who plays Picasso and Sharon Millerchip who plays Miss Fischer, ‘A Picasso’ is a play that needs to be seen more than once.
Ensemble Theatre, Sydney www.ensemble.com.au showing NOW!
Another brilliant play dealing with the impact of Nazism is Hitler’s Daughter by Jackie french at Darling Quarter Theatre Darling harbour
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The beautiful kids and teachers of Holy Spirit School North Ryde have embraced Room to Read – www.roomtoread.org
- Educating the Children of the developing world.
So far Room to Read has reached 6.6 million children in countries including Vietnam, Nepal. India … Uganda and aims to reach 20 million children by 2020!
I’m proud to be a ROOM TO READ Author Ambassador.
I was there with 4 hats as a:-
Room to Read Author Ambassador
Ambassador for the National Year of Reading 2012
Patron of Monkey Baa Theatre www.monkeybaa.com.au
The author of:-
NO to School Bullying & I AM JACK
Universal Human Rights – everyone has the right to a nationality & ‘Ships in the Field’
It was a warm, wonderful and joyous day there.
Thankyou Kosalay Pather for inviting me to your school.
Room to Read endorses ‘I Am Jack’.
Monkey Baa Theatre’s adaptation of ‘I AM JACK’ will be performed at the Lend lease Darling Quarter Theatre Darling Harbour 11-15 March Bookings:-
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